Self-Described Software Historian, Writing In Public and H e r e 2 H e l p.
I appreciate all of the privacy and ethics-associated reasons why it is preferable to start a Windows 11 installation with a local account, but if I could just add one more…
When you use a Microsoft account to do so, the operating system still requires a fucking username for the name of your user directory (because a local account must be created regardless, yes,) and all it has to go on is the email address you used to set up your Microsoft account.
A few years ago when I first installed Windows 11 on my home PC, the email address still associated with my primary account was ihadtopee@gmail.com
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So, what do you think my user account folder was named? You’d probably assume it’d be ihadtopee
, right?
No. Through whatever process they set up to decide upon this, Windows 11 came up with ihadt
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Perhaps it makes me a superficial person, but that shit bugs me far more than anything else about the whole thing.
So glad to hear it! Don’t worry about attribution in my case, though - consider these CC0. I just took screenshots and used a color picker tool on them hehe. (I might be insane - you’d think I’d remember the hex values by now - but I do it every time I set out to make another adaptation.)
This is just the incentive I needed to finally focus on the light version… Will shoot for replying here with it before the end of the week. :)